Mumbai: The Jet-Etihad alliance could hit a roadblock, with Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy demanding a comprehensive review of the enhanced traffic rights agreement signed with Abu Dhabi (UAE) in April.
“The review by the prime minister must be comprehensive, with inputs from all the stakeholders which includes me as a public representative. If that does not happen, I will seek the quashing the India-UAE deal. I will wait till July when the Supreme Court re-opens. I have to first write to the prime minister as a pre-requisite for the court to take notice,” Swamy said in a emailed response to Business Standard.
Swamy, who earlier took on the government in the 2G sprectum scam, has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the alliance. “The pricing of Jet shares and the sweetening of the deal by de facto rendering UAE as an Indian traffic hub are fraudulent,” he said.
Swamy denied that he was raking up the Jet-Etihad alliance issue on behest of other airlines or airport operators, which too have opposed the deal. “I am a fighter for public interest,” he said.
04/06/13 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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“The review by the prime minister must be comprehensive, with inputs from all the stakeholders which includes me as a public representative. If that does not happen, I will seek the quashing the India-UAE deal. I will wait till July when the Supreme Court re-opens. I have to first write to the prime minister as a pre-requisite for the court to take notice,” Swamy said in a emailed response to Business Standard.
Swamy, who earlier took on the government in the 2G sprectum scam, has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the alliance. “The pricing of Jet shares and the sweetening of the deal by de facto rendering UAE as an Indian traffic hub are fraudulent,” he said.
Swamy denied that he was raking up the Jet-Etihad alliance issue on behest of other airlines or airport operators, which too have opposed the deal. “I am a fighter for public interest,” he said.
04/06/13 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
